Sharing experiences: another amazing YouTube video

By way of my friend Damon's blog comes this amazing video of a home crowd at a basketball game. It's incredible to watch how into the game they are and the lack of social fear.

That's right, social fear. Maybe you should think about that for a moment. Do you have social fear? Are you afraid of being yourself in public?

The digitization of our lives is happening. Whether it's Flickr, YouTube, your blog or whatever's coming next, we're becoming more digitally entwined. That scares people. A ton. But it's also good, because you can share these experiences. Watch this video and then think about it like this:

- Imagine that you go to school here and you're trying to tell a friend who doesn't go there about your freshman year. You're telling them how cohesive the student body is, how tied together everyone feels and how much they love basketball. Your friend listens intently, but they don't "get" it. Not just with your words.

- You send them this video.

Then what happens? Maybe your friend picks up the phone and calls you with 5 questions about your school. Maybe they want to transfer there. Or think you should leave.

But, all of a sudden, they've gotten to experience your life more intimately than ever before.

Isn't that what we're really seeking with this stuff? The ability to more fully share who we are, what we think, what we do? Aren't we really try to share the experiences of our lives?

I think so.

You tell me. Tell me what you want out of blogs, flickr, youtube, twitter etc. I'm dying to know.

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Comments

[Mark Jacobs]

i'm looking for different things...sometimes education, sometimes entertainment, sometimes inspiration. i don't know all the reasons why people publish all their ideas and stuff, but i think a large part of it is just to express themselves for themselves. i'm guessing a very large % of the content created by the bloggers and youtubers doesn't get noticed or really shared in a meaningful way, but just like writing in a personal journal or diary, i think there's something therapeutic about getting our experiences and thoughts out of our heads and into the real world.